Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies.
It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and Communism.
In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europe pays part.